On April 14, Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, pop star Katy Perry, broadcaster Gayle King, NASA rock scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and movie producer Kerianne Flynn accomplished an 11-minute space flight.
Nevertheless, diverse reactions have trailed the trip’s aftermath, with some wondering its significance.
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Emily Ratajkowski Slams Blue Origin Space Flight
Ratajkowski didn’t waste time condemning the Blue Origin all-women space trip.
She reacted to the flight via a video post on TikTok on Monday. “That space mission this morning, that is end time sh-t. Like that is beyond parody,” she began.
Ratajkowski then targeted Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in the following a part of the clip. She said, “Saying that you simply care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you are going up in a spaceship that’s built and paid for by an organization that is single-handedly destroying the planet?”
She added, “Have a look at the state of the world and take into consideration what number of resources went into putting these women into space. For what? For what? What was the marketing there?”
The model concluded, “After which to attempt to make it like… I’m disgusted. Literally, I’m disgusted.”
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Emily Ratajkowski Says Space Mission ‘Is Not Progress’
On Tuesday, Ratajkowski shared one other video on TikTok, elaborating on her rant in regards to the all-women space trip.
She began, “Okay, I’m back. I even have more to say,” before adding, “I believe that this space mission is confusing to people because seeing women and folks of color in spaces like science and politics which have not previously included them feels and appears like, really looks like, optically looks like progress.”
The 33-year-old continued with more vitriols geared toward Bezos. She said, “But the reality is that having a person who has gained his power and develop into an element of the 1% purely through exploitation and greed deciding to take his fiancée and just a few other famous women to space for space tourism is just not progress.”
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Ratajkowski opined that the space mission “speaks to the indisputable fact that we’re absolutely living in an oligarchy, where there may be a really small group of people who find themselves eager about going to space for the sake of getting a brand new lease on life while the remaining of the population, most individuals on Planet Earth, are nervous about paying rent, or, you recognize, having dinner for his or her kids.”
She added, “I saw a creator on here who said that ‘privilege is just not an accomplishment,'” before going further to say that “exploitation is definitely not an accomplishment, after which having the ability to take the privilege that you’ve gained from exploitation and greed of the planet, of resources, of human beings, after which doing something like going to space for 11 minutes, is definitely not an accomplishment.”
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Ratajkowski compared the space mission to the “Hunger Games” movie, noting, “That is why that is all giving “Hunger Games,” right?” She concluded, “Why I’m making one other video is that I believe we’re in a spot on this planet where we’d like to have the opportunity to discern what real progress looks like, and what happened yesterday was nothing like that.”
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Fans React To Emily Ratajkowski’s Videos
Ratajkowski received overwhelming support from fans who commented on her video posts.
One one that commented on her first video slammed Katy Perry, noting, “Dying at the very fact Katy Perry 100% thinks it’s peak feminism, like, nobody has done more within the name of feminism than what she did by getting on that ship.”
One other person added, “They acted prefer it was a win for feminism. The cash used to send them to space might have been used to truly help women in so some ways.”
A fan who reacted to Ratajkowski’s second video commented, “The cash spent on Katy Perry’s space mission might have been higher used to fund STEM education, public health, or environmental programs that create lasting change.”
One other person hailed Ratajkowski, saying, “No babe I follow Emrata cause she makes extremely valid points and uses her huge platform for good.”
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Olivia Munn’s Criticism Of Blue Origin Space Mission
Emily Ratajkowski is just not the one influential one that has openly slammed the Blue Origin space trip.
Before the ladies launched into their trip on Monday, actress Olivia Munn gave her two cents on the controversial mission while serving as co-host on the April 3 episode of “Today With Jenna and Friends.”
She said per Page Six, “What are they doing? I do know this probably is not the cool thing to say. But there are such a lot of other things which are so necessary on this planet right away.”
Munn later added, “What are you guys gonna do up in space? What are you doing up there?”
She also questioned why the all-women space flight was publicized before expressing her displeasure about its cost, noting, “I do know this might be obnoxious, but like, it is so much money to go to space, and there is lots of individuals who can’t even afford eggs.”
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Gayle King And Lauren Sanchez Defend Space Flight
Seasoned broadcaster Gayle King and Bezos’s soon-to-be-bride, Lauren Sanchez, responded to the criticism geared toward their space mission.
The pair spoke during a press conference following the expedition, with King noting that “anybody that is criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is occurring here.”
She added, “We will all speak to the response we’re getting from young women from young girls about what this represents.”
Sanchez said, “I get really fired up. I might like to have them come to Blue Origin and see the 1000’s of employees that do not just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle.”
The 55-year-old continued, “They love their work they usually love the mission and it’s an enormous deal for them. So once we hear comments like that, I just say, ‘Trust me. Include me. I’ll show you what that is about, and it’s, it’s really eye-opening.'”
